Professor Eddy

Dutch producers and songwriters Bernard Oattes and Rob van Schaik used to call themselves The Limit and composed several great dance/pop tracks, for instance Love Take Over by Five Star. As a duo they released a full-length album in 1985, which contained their hit single Say Yeah with Gwen Guthrie on vocals and David Sanborn on saxophone. The song peaked at #17 on the UK Singles Chart, #34 on the Dutch Pop Chart and at #7 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play chart. For legal reasons they became Oattes Van Schaik, just before they released their album. Due to the confusion after their name change and the different titles of their album ( The Limit and Love Attaxx ), the sales were poor and the so-called "Dutch Hall & Oates" disappeared from the charts, but they kept on working for others. In the 1990s Bernard Oattes pursued a solo career, and went on to produce 3 studio albums. Enjoy these Grooves From The Crates ! Next up is a new part of Mellow Mellow FM Radio . Tra...

Unsplash I hope you're all doing well in these very uncertain times. Hopefully this cloudcast will make you feel a little better. The rare track by Hareton Salvanini is from the soundtrack of the obscure film Xavana, Uma Ilha do Amor , which was re-released by Mad About Records last year. Allmusic about Ye-Me-Le from Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66: "There are special moments, like the hypnotic Masquerade (no relation to the Leon Russell/George Benson hit), Sergio Mihanovich's haunting Some Time Ago , and another winning treatment of a Beatles tune, Norwegian Wood ,where Mendes cuts loose a killer solo on electric piano (believe it or not, the 45 rpm single version features more of that solo than the LP)." Next up is a new part of Grooves From The Crates . Track list: Wendy Lewis & Vintage Lounge Orchestra – How Long (2012) Marcela Mangabeira – What You Won’t Do For Love (2008) Four80East – Ba Ba Brazil [Radio Edit] (2020) Hareton Salvanini ‎ ...

Unsplash In the 1970s all kinds of genres melted together: pop, jazz, rock and soul. The Smooth Operators (Martijn Soetens and I) put a handful of those mixed gems together to create a brand new 70s mixtape. Enjoy! Tracklist: Laura Allan – Opening Up To You (1978) Hall & Oates – Las Vegas Turnaround (1973) Bob Welch – Don’t Let Me Fall (1979) Jim Spencer  – Wrap Myself Up In Your Love (1979) Patrice Rushen – Let’s Sing A Song Of Love (1978) Ramp – Daylight (1977) Paul McCartney & Wings – Bluebird (1973) Dwight Twilley Band – Sleeping (1977) The Jeremy Spencer Band – Cool Breeze (1979) Lion & The Lamb – All For You (1978) The Isley Brothers – Listen To The Music (1973) D. J. Rogers – Love Brought Me Back (1978) Phyllis Hyman – Can’t Live Without You Baby (1974) Boz Scaggs – What Can I Say (1976) Barrabas – Woman (1972) Pratt & McClain – Whachersign (1976) Rosie – There’s A Song In It Somewhere (1977) Lauren Wood & Michael ...

Unsplash Waiting for the summer to arrive… The tracks by Martee Lebous and Franne Golde are from the upcoming new installment of Too Slow To Disco: “The second volume of The Ladies of Too Slow to Disco tells a deeper, more political story about 16 fantastically talented women, how they found their own way through the peak-machismo years of the recording industry, to make the records they wanted to make." Out on June 19th. Martee Lebous is a recording artist, singer/songwriter from Binghamton N.Y. In 1976, while still a teenager, she recorded her debut album, The Lady Wants To be A Star produced by Charlie Calello, featuring a cohort of New York session royalty including David Lasley, Will Lee, The Brecker Brothers, John Tropea and Jeff Mirinov. Martee today is lead singer of The Mar-Tays. Australian songstress Justine (Bradley) recorded an album in 1979, which was not meant to be officially released. Wordless Songs is one of the tracks. A melancholic soulful number, whic...

Unsplash Press play! Let’s go back to the Walkman days, when taping radio shows and vinyl albums was a daily activity for the young. In the early eighties the radio-friendly Californian yacht rock and smooth jazz sound ruled the air waves, but it did not take long before British new wave took over, the radio variant of the 1970s punk movement. The popularity of that genre began to flourish when MTV started to play their extravagant video clips. It all ended when house and hip hop broke loose and a new generation took the steering wheel at the end of the decade. Enjoy part 31 of Eddy's Eighties Grooves , exclusively for Mixcloud Select subscribers. Track list: Ray & James ‎– Nature Boy (1982) Momoko Kikuchi – Mystical Composer (1986) Naked Eyes – Promises, Promises (1983) Steve Marrs – How Was I To Know (1982) Jimmy Hall ‎ – I'm Happy That Love Has Found You (1980) Kettner & Shawe – Take This Heart (1984) Michael Jackson – Baby Be Mine (1982) Kimiko...

Martijn Soetens Angela Bofill had surprising commercial success with her first two albums, Angie and Angel Of The Night , produced by contemporary jazz executives Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen for their GRP label, distributed by Arista. She then jumped to Arista itself (causing some bad blood with GRP) to try for a deliberate jazz-pop crossover on her third album Something About You . The LP was produced by Narada Michael Walden and supervised by Arista president Clive Davis. Holding Out For Love from the album managed to reach the American R&B Top 40 and became a minor hit on the Dutch pop charts in 1982. I chose to play the funky title track on this cloudcast. Enjoy this new episode of Grooves From The Crates ! Next up is part 31 of Eddy's Eighties Grooves , exclusively for Mixcloud Select subscribers and a new Smooth Sailing trip for all listeners. Tracklist: Fifth Of Heaven ‎– Just A Little More (1988) Patrice Rushen – Watch Out (1987) The Cool Notes – Spend ...